Fisherman's Blues

LPA

1. Fisherman’s Blues
2. We Will Not Be Lovers
3. Strange Boat
4. World Party
5. Sweet Thing
6. Jimmy Hickey’s Waltz
7. And a Bang on the Ear

LPB

1. Has Anybody Here Seen Hank
2. When Will We Be Married
3. When Ye Go Away
4. Dunford’s Fancy
5. The Stolen Child
6. This Land Is Your Land

Led by the literate singer/songwriter Mike Scott, the group's sole constant member, The Waterboys formed in London in 1983. The band has played in a number of different styles, but most often their music can be described as a mix of Celtic folk music with rock and roll, or folk rock. 

Fisherman’s Blues was The Waterboys' best-selling album. It marked a change in the sound for the band, abandoning their earlier grandiose rock sound for a mixture of traditional Irish music, traditional Scottish music, country music and rock and roll. It contains the cover of a song by Van Morrison "Sweet Thing", originally from Morrison's 1968 album, Astral Weeks.